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We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
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At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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There is no security in following the call to adventure.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call following your bliss.
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The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
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We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
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The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
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The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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